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Japan's PM pushes for "equal" ties with US

TOKYO : Japan's centre-left Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama stressed in his first policy address to parliament Monday that he wants a relationship of equals with the United States. ...full story at Channel NewsAsia

from Channel NewsAsia on Mon, Oct 26 2009

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